i believe a new age is on the horizen. ill use two ages of reference just so we're on the same page about where i'm coming from. The industrial age, started by young investors who probably as kids had their crude mechanics and little toy machines to make some task easier. this then evolved from the various new energy sources(steam) to todays(nuclear). Next was the information age. inventions like the radio and television which later contributed to computers. Computers who owe much of their programming credit to the youth working out of their own garage as commonly thought of.
Point being i see these Ages of human kind coming from the more flexible and eager minds of its youth. Many say todays youth(at least amercians) are only concerned with video games and pizza, true. but lets look younger. Thats right, and don't stop reading till i'm done, Pokemon and other japanese "ish" cartoons. not GI Joe. Not mickey mouse. Pokemon and company. While this seems alittle stupid at first it does have a point.
Kids were always play fighting with weapons but usually they were swords or guns, not animals. I believe in the next age or generation new research on genetic altering, biological warefare, and you name it is going to be done on a scale rivaling the computer rush. Soon the new fade might be green eyes instead of a green shirt and the new soldier might not have a single weapon on him except his 4 arms and scorpian tail.

I think you would enjoy reading this:

http://www.acrobatdesigns.com/nostradamus/part8.html

You're being directed to the last page which speaks of this *new age.*

Interesting, but the future is usually a little less shocking then we give it credence for. Computers are great, but not nearly as mind shattering as people in the thirties and fouties could have imagined.

I figure life will be based more and more on computers. Soon you may be able to have a completely normal social life without ever leaving your home. With adequate computer connections I would be ok with being a brain in a bottle.

Still say something like the Matrix wouldnt be that bad.

It does appear to me now that this may come into being in the near future. Those children who are now watching the shows about mutants and such may be the one's who become mutated but it will be this generation, those of us who sit up at night at our computers, listening to music and playing what, counter-strike that will make the descision to allow this.
Specifically the technology to create such humans, shall we allow ourselves to experiment on the human creature, in what, the name of progress? It is entirely possible that this will happen and happen within our lifetime, for the morals of our society are, as I see, falling apart. Teenagers are already taking steps to alter there bodies, molding them into un-natural forms whether it be by plastic-surgery or simply by putting a whole into one's tongue (I have no idea why anyone would do that but we do).
Don't think just in terms of militaristic values either, parents will decide the gender of their children. Our whole reproductive systems and genetic traits shall become mapped, and indeed the usefullness of sexual reproduction, the randomness will decay.
So who will make this possible, who will decree the future. I say that it shall not be Washington but the societies of the world, the values of today will make for the humans of tomorrow, the future starts now, we shall decide and for that I am quite pessimistic...
(Yet it is a pessimisn that holds hope)

Abdiel:

Theirs a movie that came out a couple of years ago called galactica i think. I know its something like that. anyways it deals in the future in a time with all the genetic choosing you spoke of. Really good movie about heart and overcoming...

Also another view i tried to include in my theory but i didn't really do a good job. This genetic altering would not only be done to humans. instead of machinery think if we could desine bio robotics ( im sure there's a better name for that) such as a small mindless monkey looking creature that could be bought to do chores around the house, a giantic gorilla that could lift heavy things in the work place on command, or new biological warefare that wasn't microscopic but more dog and large cat size.

Fascinating film, BTW...


http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119177

Killjoy: thanks, its been awhile since i've seen that movie